Improvement in sleeping-cars



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No. 65,272. Patented May 28, I867.

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Car Seat and Couch.

No. 65272. Patented May 28. 1867.

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Letters Patent No. 65,272, dated May 28, 1867.

IMPROVEMENT IN SLEEPING-CARS.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, J. WYATT REID, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Sleeping-Car Beds for Railroads; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is a top view of an apartment in a sleeping-car, the roof being removed in the line a: :v, fig. 3, to show my improved suspended beds.

Figure 2 is a front side view of an apartment in a sleeping-car, showing my improved beds as suspended for use, and also as rolled up out of the way.

Figure 3 is a vertical transverse section of an apartment of a sleeping-car, takcuin the plane of the line 3 3 fig. 2, showing the same. i

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts.

This invcntion'rclates to a novel method-of constructing and arranging the beds in a railroad sleeping car, and consistsin forming the beds of canvas or other suitable material, attached to rods or chains in such. manner that they may be conveniently suspended for sleeping in, and taken down and packed away, as may be necessary. Beds for sleeping-cars, as hitherto constructed and arranged, have required a complicated system of framework for supporting them at night when in use, which occupies considerable space, and is inconvenient in its management. The beds, too, are bulky mattresses, which often become infested with vermin, and fill up the confined space in an apartment of a sleeping-car, so as materially to interfere with comfort and free ventilation. By my improved suspended canvas beds the machinery of supporting frame- -w 0rk is entirely dispensed with, and cleanliness-and room in the apartment are secured, while at the same time the nuisances connected with employing the seats as beds, and interfering with the upholstery of the car, are avoided.

A is the partition framing of the apartment on one side of a sleeping-car, B the flooring, and O the roof. My improved sleeping-car beds may be suspended in two modes, either by chains or ropes, or by rods or frames which run lengthwise on both sides. D represents the bed, suspended by chains a, which are attached to the canvas on the sides and at the head and foot, and E represents the bed suspended on rods 6,..whieh are attached to the canvas on both sides. F F are ordinary seats, on opposite sides of the apartment of a sleeping-car, the backs c a of which are folded down out of the way to suspend the lower tier of beds. Behind the back of one of these seats is hung a horizontal shaft, cl, which may be provided with a ratchctnvheel and pawl, and is turned with a movable crank, :2, applied to the outward end. On the shaft d are hooks it, which catch rings on one end of the bed, and at the opposite side of the apartment are also hooks s s, which catch rings on the other end of the bed, by which rings and hooks the bed is suspended for use, as shown in figs. 1 and 2. The bed can be rolled up entirely out of the way by releasing the rings on the hooks s s, and turning the shaft d, as shown in figs. 2' and 3. Or, the shaft may be dispensed with, and the bed be suspended on hooks in the partition-wall at both ends, and the canvas be rolled and put away with the bed clothing in a box under the seat, or in a storeroom, taking up but little room'any'whe'rc, and being easily handled. Or, for suspending the beds E, the ends of the. rods 6 are lodged in brackets 7c is at the foot and head, and when taken down are readily rolled up and put out of the way entirely, by lodging the ends on shelves or racks m m at the top of the apartment, and as shown in all figures of the drawings.

But having thus described my invention, I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The bed D, suspended by chains a, horizontal shaft d, provided with ratchet and pawl-hooks and s s, when constructed and arranged within the slcepingcar, substantially as herein set forth, and for the purpose specified.

.l'. WYATT REID.

Witnessesf WM. F. MeNAriAnA, ALFX. F. ROBERTS,- 

